Telangana Budget 2026-27: Government fears migration due to VB-G-RAM-G

The State authorities has expressed fears that the instauration of VB-G-RAM-G scheme replacing the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) volition erstwhile again promote migration of labour from Telangana.

Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, successful his fund code connected Friday (March 20), made a notation of the caller strategy and pointed retired that successful Telangana, 54.90% of the beneficiaries beryllium to SC, ST, and OBC communities. Because of Budget limitations, a superior menace looms implicit their livelihoods.

“But the existent Central Government has brought successful a caller strategy called VB-G RAM G successful spot of MGNREGA. Our Telangana Legislative Assembly has unanimously opposed this caller law,” helium said.

The instrumentality brought by the past UPA authorities successful the sanction of Mahatma Gandhi arsenic a limb to eradicate poorness and unemployment successful villages is the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). This is not conscionable a scheme; it is an ‘employment right’ provided to the communal person. Over the past 2 decades, this strategy has brought astir a soundless gyration successful villages. By guaranteeing 100 days of enactment each year, it has checked migration and go a pillar of women’s empowerment, arsenic women represent implicit 50% of the labourers nether it, helium added.